Beer: Ratings & Reviews

Reviews by beveragecaptain:

11.2 ounce bottle. Quöllfrisch pours out a clear, very pale yellow color with a large, white head. The aroma is crisp grain, spicy hops, and a bit of citrus. From the light color, I expected this beer to have a light flavor, but this was not true at all. This beer is fairly malty. Not too sweet. Hops come through at the middle and are restrained. There is no off-flavor in this beer. Mouthfeel is crisp. Great drinkability. This is a delicious and refreshing beer.

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This beer tastes better in Madison, WI then anywhere else. This is where it is impoted to and it just tastes good here. It must have something to do with New Glarus (Americas Little Switzerland) being near by.

Sulfurous bright golden hell lager with honey malts and herbal hops. I dig it. This is super light and drinkable. This tastes more like a really great pilsner than a lager.

I would drink this beer over any American pilsner as my light beer of choice any time.

The Hell Quöllfrisch arrives in an 11.2oz green bottle. After checking out the Appenzeller website this beer appears to be different from the Quöllfrisch in the swingtop bottle. It pours from the bottle a light, clear straw yellow with great clarity and a half inch tightly packed bubbly head. Not a speck of yeast in the bottle. Aromas of crisp sweet grains upfront with a nice spicy, noble hop as well. I get a slight light fruitiness as well. Clean and crisp.

First sip brings a mellow, sun dried toasty grainy maltiness that has a nice sweetness to it. Slightly spicy, herbal hops come in midway through and they're quite laid back. This is a light, refreshing Euro lager that's crisp and clean with really no off flavors considering the green bottle. Finishes with a hint of light citrus.

Mouthfeel is light but there's a nice creaminess to the body of the brew. Steady carbonation is there but not over the top. This goes down easily and is a nice, straight forward European pale lager, one of the better ones that I've sampled. This would make a good lawnmower beer in the summer for sure..glad I took the chance on trying it.

Brought a 330ml can home from Europe. The beer pours a clear yellowish gold color with a thin white head that dissipates quickly. Not much lacing. Light grassy hops, honey and sweet fruit in the nose. Light, clean body with a faint floral character. Sweet malt, fruit and grassy hops flavors. The finish is clean and fruity with a mildly bitter hops aftertaste. Overall a decent Euro beer.

My friend's sister lives in Appenzell, Switzerland and was kind enough to bring me a few goodies from across the way. This is the first of three to try and I enjoyed it immensely so I can't wait to see, or taste rather, what else he brought back.

A. Poured a nice golden straw with a really delicate head that dissipated quickly.

Believe it or not, good beer is not easy to find in Switzerland. After having moved here from ths US where I traveled extensively and drank some mighty fine micro brews, the selection in the stores and pubs is weak. I will be going to travel across the EU soon and that should change.Quollfrisch? The best of the Swiss beers I have tried by a long shot. Straw colored, nice foamy head, decent lacing with a slightly sweet and dry middle with a nice malt-hop balance and tangy, hoppy finish that lingers. I have not been to the Appenzeller region yet since I am in the west. However, I would love to find this on tap. If so, I will update.

Hell Quöllfrisch best before 2 2010, in charming green glass with a neat painting on it.

Pours a crystal clear pale gold with a foamy white head. Smelll is fresh and pleasant, mostly hops with some grain, feels like smelling the air on a fresh alpine hops farm.

Its a great tasting, smooth, highly drinkable lager, enough said, the ultimate session beer. It has the perfect balance of hops and malt. Get it if you can find it. For a Euro Pale lager its near the Pinnacle.

Straw-colored beer with a light, sudsy head of about one finger. Tons of carbonation. The aroma is primarily oats and cereal, with some hints of fruitiness. Toasted oat and fruit flavors with just a hint of bitterness in the aftertaste. This is a really good lager.

This was one of the featured bottles at Foundation in Milwaukee's Riverwest neighborhood--this is the first time I've seen it in the city.

It pours an extremely pale, yellow straw or apple juice color with a half inch eggshell head that dissolves to virtually nothing and leaves just a bit of cling on the glass. Clear, with very little visible carbonation. There is pronounced sour bread in the nose, along with just a fleeting sense of skunk and some slight herbal hop notes. There's a lot of sour bread in the first taste, with subdued grassy and herbal hop just gently touching the sides and back of the tongue. There is just a bit of the skunk from the nose in the taste, but it really doesn't detract from the flavor; on the contrary, it adds some complexity to the palate. This one closes with a bit of sweetness from the malts. The feel is light-bodied and quite effervescent. It's both smooth and clean-finishing, but fairly run-of-the-mill.

A pleasant and drinkable lager, with enough complexity to keep things interesting. This one could certainly benefit from a better hop profile, but how many beers couldn't? Some people I was drinking with compared this to Heineken, but I find it to be much more palatable and engaging. Well worth a try.

Ok, the green bottle persuaded me to try something else first, but i came back to this one.

A bit darker than straw color in the pour. Fluffy, yet soapy white head. Still it stayed around throughout.No skunk in the smell, I was pleasantly surprised. Malty and yeast, with a bit of crisp lemongrass whiffs. Taste flows very lightly and crisp. a good light beer. Pale lager is right, the malt and yeast come together to form a bit of breadness, but the hops and lemony taste makes that bread light and sweet. Good finish and nice drinkability. Not my style, but good for summer days.

This beer poured a clear dark straw color and formed a nice foamy white head that left latticed lace as it subsided. A medium amount of carbonation is present. An aroma of malt, hops, grass and bread is present. The flavor was of lemon, hops and a touch of malt and pepper. A fairly light body with a crisp, clean finish. A very nice session beer.